
How contribution decisions shape the sustainability of the PostgreSQL ecosystem Last week at PGConf.DE, I gave a talk titled Not Just Altruism: Selling PostgreSQL Contributions to Your Employer. It didn’t attract a large audience. To be…


Boring is an investment. Exciting is a bill. The calmest PostgreSQL deployments in production share one trait. They are boring. Pages stay quiet. Dashboards stay green. The on-call engineer reads a book on Tuesday night. And the people…
At Percona, our priority has always been to provide the open source database solutions that our users can count on for the long term. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a core part of that promise, delivering the high availability,…

Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to…